Vance Faber

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name = Vance Faber


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birth_place = Buffalo, New York
residence = Seattle, Washington
nationality = American
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field = Mathematician
alma_mater = Washington University in Saint Louis
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Vance Faber (born December 1, 1944 in Buffalo, New York) is a mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics, applied linear algebra and image processing.

Faber received his Ph.D. in 1971 from Washington University in Saint Louis. His advisor was Franklin Tepper Haimo. [MathGenealogy |id=2065]

Faber was a professor at University of Colorado at Denver during the 1970s. He spent parts of 3 years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder on a NASA post doctoral fellowship where he wrote a second thesis on the numerical solution of the Shallow Water Equations under the direction of numerical analyst Paul Swarztrauber. In the 1980s and 1990s he was on the staff of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was Group Leader from 1990 to 1995.

From 1998 to 2003 Faber was CTO and Head of Research for three different small companies building imaging software: LizardTech, Mapping Science and Cytoprint. He is currently Director of Pattern Recognition at BD Bioimaging systems.

Faber shared the Golub prize with Thomas A. Manteuffel for their work on Conjugate Gradient Methods in 1984.

He has an Erdős number of 1.

ee also

*Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture

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